>Hi, > >For what your looking for the gigabyte M61p-S3 is the perfect mobo. >Six sata ports DDRII and a am2 dual core AMD is really cheap. Only >downside is that the realtek NIC oesnt work as far as i know. >However an intel gigabit card is relativly cheap and works. And even >with all that i was able to buy it all for around AUS$350. cpu, mobo, >ram and everything. ive tried it with a few solaris distro's >and its worked fine and been rather fast.
Did you submit it to the HCL :-)? If power consumption and heat is a consideration, the newer Intel CPUs have an advantage in that Solaris supports native power management on those CPUs. We will not do native power management on AMD's until we get some with P-state invariant TSC (my powernow driver will supports single core, single socket systems still). This also, I think, will require a "socket AM3" motherboard (the 0x10 Opterons will run in AM2 motherboards but those do not provide the different power and CPU planes needed for the 2/4 cores. But to measure is to know and I would really like to know the idle power consumptions (no disks/disks spun down) of the various motherboards when IDLE under Solaris (with CPU/Memory accounted for, of course) Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
